Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition

Third party DRM: Securom

Description

"Blood Bowl is a game which knows how to translate the essence of the original tabletop game, and has achieved something we thought was impossible: to make it fun for newcomers." - Vandal.net

"_Those of you yet to delve into the Blood Bowl universe will find a game with hours of entertainment to uncover, provided you manage to scale the steep learning curve and avoid the pitfalls of mismatching. Online however, Blood Bowl is a rare treat - and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it." - Strategyinformer.com

Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games.

The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment. Brutal victory after victory, improve your players' skills to make them into true Blood Bowl players!

This is a no holds barred bonecrunching sport! Even if tactics are your favoured route, you can also choose from a large selection of incredible and vicious moves: bribe the ref, devastating spells or illegal weapons…

Blood Bowl Legendary Edition also includes new stadiums and new game modes such as the "Story" mode. Here you will learn of Blood Bowl's origins and play the sports' most legendary matches in its most spectacular stadiums!

Blood Bowl can be played online. Create your team, improve it and lead it to the top of the official rankings! Develop your own private internet league to organize your own tournaments!

Customer reviews

77

Prepare to be amazed

BloodBowl is a turn based fantasy football simulator PC game based on a board game. With that said the game rolls dice for almost any action you take, and the dice determine the success or failure to the tasks you do. The dice roll automatically, but there is a dice log so players can see who rolled what dice and what was the outcome. The gameplay is very tactical and really requires some effort to play. There are many races with different skills and stats and you can also level up your football team, train your players and manage your team. The different and the most interesting part is that you don't have to play by the rules to win. The more punchy teams, that have strong guys could kill or injure their enemies in order to have an advantage. Other teams are more agile and can outrun big guys and play the ball. The game has lots of modes and online tournaments. The only bad thing about this game is that it is very bad at telling you how to play it. The tutorial doesn't teach you anything and it is really hard to figure things out by your self. The game is really good to play but before you start I advise you to check some videos on the net first on the basic rules of the game.

85

Humble bundle

This great game is now in the current weekly Humble bundle for those that dont know it just google it you can get this game + 4 others for just $1.
The game is very unique i normally dont like sports but with blood bowl its more violence than sports and thats what i like so much about it. The race variety with different play style will give you tons of hours of gameplay if you want to just try them all out i really like the variety. all in all a very fun game it might not be a game which would have you hanging to the screen for 20 hours when you first buy it like some games but you will want to play it every once in a while at least

88

The best game Cyanide ever made

There are sports for little girls, sports for men and there is Blood Bowl. All races of Old World solve their differences on the pitch, fightring over a ball and trying to score touchdowns. It is like american football, only more brutal. Almost everything is allowed. Choose a race from 20, make your team and lead it to victory, smashing opponents to the ground. Hire wizards to cast a spell, cheerleaders to make fans love you. But beware - almost everything you do requiers a die roll and Lady Fortune won;t be always on yourr side. Blood Bowl is converted almost one to one from tabletop original.

There are several modes to be played - from campaign, through story mode, ending with the most exciting: multiplayer. You can play using classic rules (most popular and turn based) or use Blitz mode that brings several mutations. AI could be better, but even now this game is highly enjoyable.

86

Very impressed

While not going overboard the game is damn good and it punishes you buy killing your players, so if your the kind a guy that tries to make something work flawlessly don't play it. It's true, your players will die, stumble and drop the ball ruining your perfect plan and will occasionally lose a limb or two or die a gruesome death at the hands of something way bigger or a spell.

Also quick note: I hate the real time, this is a boardgame... Real time sucks in and doesn't work at all. For me at least.

But defending all the irrelevant points made up till now, I'll just quote some of the horrible and unfair reviews here and respond for you people as to reveal facts. The choice is still yours:

1) "My team could not hold on to the goddamn ball to save their life. In fact, none of my abilities seem to work at all for my team, but freaking ALWAYS for my opponents."

My take: This game's tutorial is out right bad (this is a really bad point), why it lost 2 points in my book. But this is a boardgame. You need to read the manual, you need to understand what affects your players, when, why and how. If your going to try to pass a ball while your hugged by an enemy player, throw it long distance, to a team mate how is not heavy on "Agility" and is also next to a opposing player and you have another player attempting to intercept your pass... SPOILER: It's gonna FAIL!... Read the rules, understand the game. WIN!

2) "I feel like it has such potential, but I get stomped every game. My players drop the ball, get clobbered by the other team, and get completely rolled by the other team. Whereas my players don't do anything, the other teams abilities seem to ALWAYS work."

My take: See 1, and also I have to go through how many times, I just happen to fail a dodge and drop the ball, only for my opponent next turn just failing at picking the ball up and letting me go for the counter tocuh-down. Or how they're "ogre class" player just fails to move because of the "really dumb trait" and basically costs them the mid-field fight. It equally happens to you and the enemy.

My take: In the same order. Whats nonsense about it ?!. maybe...but he also states as the previous that you cannot win if your life depended on it. I just can't see it or why you would want to move the camera around. pretty straight forward unless your playing on another language you don't know. Oooooh, I see nonsense = random...well who would've expected ...dices that are random...I'm sorry but I can't keep a straight face at that.

4) "This developer, Cyanide Studios, are the ones also responsible for taking the incredible George RR Martin Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones universe and making a poorly done strategy game out of it"

My take: I don't see the words: "blood","bowl" or "warhammer" there. I'm sorry, personal vendettas are not welcomed here.

Well those where my 2 cents. A good game, definitely if you get it on sale. I won't bother with the last of the list since. This game has not crashed once, you can only get a limited amount of players because of BALANCE issues, so you can't spam a team of "ogre class" players, because it is a remake of the boardgame to the letter.